IC 5364 NED02
IC 5364 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 5364 NED02 as it looked roughly 423 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 5364 NED01Lenticular36,000 ly
apartIC 5358Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 5349 NED02Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 5350Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 5354Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 5362Lenticular35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5358Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 5349 NED02Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 5350Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 5354Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 5362Lenticular35 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).